EXHIBITION SUMMARY

I have exhibited 2 and 3 dimensional work in fine arts galleries, cafes, and festival shows. My work has sold to private and company collections in the United States from MA to OR and as far south as FL.

Reproductions of my original paintings and drawings appear on apparel, posters, screen savers, and appear in print in numerous underground publications, on album covers and post/greeting cards. The feedback has been positive.

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Artist's Statement

Joseph Larkin attempts to create an impression whose primary objective is to show the viewer a glimpse into other worlds: sometimes Utopian, other times dark and formidable, always possible if not entirely likely. The rooms, landscapes, and skies are often places he has seen filtered through the meat grinder of a rabid imagination or floating in the thick primal fluid of dreams.  He commonly populates these environments with souls capable of the dooms of loneliness, pride for its own sake, the appreciation of beauty, the fear of the unknown and the joy of love.

 Joseph Larkin delineates the human face and form as often as he does for their beauty, variation, and unlimited expressive potential. Their ability to sing a song to which anyone can understand the lyrics is often the fulcrum of his attempts at emphatic communication. The inclusions of other animals in the images serve as a reminder of our ancient human origins, and as homage to the other creatures that we share the world with today. He believes that we are not their betters, just another species among them, capable of existing in harmony if we choose them as family rather than as biological subordinates.
 The foundation of Larkin's work is submerged in symbolism - mythological, literary, and personal. Upon this foundation he constructs an order of visions that are meant to show his feelings of our world and the results of his blind meanderings into the small places.

So what of art, then? Art is not a privilege exclusive to the elite ranks of so-called artists. It is for, in, and because of everyone.

Paintings, sculptures and songs are bought and sold but art is not a commodity, art is not a servant to any purpose. The artist is the servant to Art. It has never been a mere expression of the creative microcosm and it is not limited to a succession of gimmicks, periods, or dated movements. Art is a living, throbbing pulse that screams in cadence in every living thing in the universe, it is insanity and healing. Art is the Truth.

About the Artist

Joseph Larkin lives and works in Seattle, WA, with his menagerie of scaly and many-legged roommates.

Visit Joseph's deviantART.com page HERE.